This article centres on a trial held in Madrid in 1614 involving a group identified as ‘vagrants’ of ‘Armenian’ and ‘Greek’ background. In order to tease out the ways in which the presence of foreigners challenged the institutions and citizens, this article approaches these defendants as relationally defined actors in the urban dynamic. It reveals the tactics marginal groups employed vis-à-vis strategic attempts by the municipal government to control foreigners by assigning them identities based on ethnicity. This case-study thus calls into question notions of vagrancy and identification based on ethnicity (‘Armenian’ and ‘Greek’, in particular) in Madrid under Phillip III and IV. In doing so, it shows marginality to be a key yet elusive site for cultural encounters and collaboration in early modern Europe, in which multilingual and culturally fluid social actors related to the Armenian diaspora played a central role.

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早期现代马德里的短暂边缘身份和网络：1614 年“亚美尼亚”、“希腊”和“土耳其”造假者的案例

本文以 1614 年在马德里举行的一次审判为中心，该审判涉及一群被认定为具有“亚美尼亚”和“希腊”背景的“流浪者”。为了梳理出外国人的存在对制度和公民构成挑战的方式，本文将这些被告视为城市动态中相关定义的参与者。它揭示了边缘群体所采用的策略，以应对市政府通过根据种族分配身份来控制外国人的战略尝试。因此，这个案例研究对菲利普三世和四世时期马德里基于种族（特别是“亚美尼亚人”和“希腊人”）的流浪和身份认同提出了质疑。在这样做的过程中，它表明边缘性是早期现代欧洲文化相遇和合作的关键但难以捉摸的场所，